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He put away the thought, the anguished query, as to how long this awful ordeal was likely to endure. For the moment it was everything to be alone. He closed his smarting eyes. Suddenly the telephone bell rang, violently. Vanderlyn got up slowly; stumblingly he walked across the room and took up the receiver. A woman's voice asked in French: "Has Mr. Pargeter left Paris?"
"Is it not natural that she should greet her father whom she has not seen for a year?" "Indeed, yes," I replied stumblingly, "but the weather is very hot, and and I was thinking how much I should have enjoyed witnessing the meeting. She doubtless was dressed in gala attire for so rare an occasion?" I asked, wishing to talk upon the subject that touched me so nearly.
It sat huddled, mummy-like but it held no horrors for him any longer. They were not face to face in that moment they were soul to soul. "I say Monty," stumblingly came the words, "you know I never dreamed of this. I thought she would have married long ago. And she has been waiting all these years?" "All these years," Herne said. "Do you think she has suffered?"
Ah, of course, he had been a fool to run any risk of another encounter; and he was sore with the fate that had led him thither in ignorance. And Meryl, walking a little stumblingly over the rough pathway, was glad of the big shady hat that hid her eyes and gave her time to pull herself together.
Christine read the message through, then let it flutter to the floor at her feet; she looked up at Jimmy's embarrassed face. "Well?" she said sharply. "He's coming to-morrow, you see," Jimmy began stumblingly. "He he'll be in London to-morrow, so if so if " He cast an appealing glance at Gladys. "I suppose I'm in the way," she said bluntly. "I'll clear out."
Stumblingly pursuing these two designs they both meant rum, the only meaning of which he was capable the degraded creature staggered into Covent Garden Market and there bivouacked, to have an attack of the trembles succeeded by an attack of the horrors, in a doorway.
The other held out his hand gropingly. Peter placed the flap of his coat in it, and the moujik stumblingly followed.... Another soldier on his knees barred the way. "We're going back," Peter said. "Come on. You can crawl " The soldier set out eagerly to obey, as if it had been a great boon to follow with his own strength. It was the mightiest episode of the day to Peter Mowbray.
It's a hard life I had no time to tell your aunt the many disadvantages, for she said you'd started when she cabled." Marcella saw quite well that she was not wanted and felt immensely relieved that there was no necessity for her to go to Wooratonga. Haltingly and stumblingly she asked him for the money, without telling him Louis's chain of lies at all. He took little notice of what she said.
At this, Hal recovered himself, though stumblingly. "'Fain would I speak," he paraphrased, "'but that I fear to to to " "Stutter," suggested Willard, with solicitous helpfulness. The girl broke into a little trill of mirth, too liquid for laughter; being rather the sound of a brooklet chuckling musically over its private delectations.
So Maurice lay in his bed in another room, and entered, silently, into a new understanding of love, which, as soon as he was permitted to see Eleanor, he tried stumblingly to share with her. Physically, she was terribly prostrated; but spiritually, feeding on those stumbling words, she rejoiced like a strong man to run a race!
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